Comments on: Minor Stepney Disasters Of The Seventies https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 01 May 2021 22:36:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: TCS https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1376537 Sat, 01 May 2021 22:36:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1376537 Harford Street Gas works – opposite the Ocean Estate – there used to be a Gas company shop on the corner with Ben Jonson Road. Ben Jonson school and Silvermans were up the other end as you walked towards the Peoples Palace. There was an ambulance station as well.

]]> By: Kenneth Sherwood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1368363 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:30:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1368363 A the GRP cab of the Dennis dustcart, they did melt if there was a fire. Fitted with a “Rolls-Royce” of a compaction body from SD, probably got a new chassis and a second life. Lovely look back at days past

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367633 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:21:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367633 Good Old Fire Department People!! Yah!!!????????

]]> By: James https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367624 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:11:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367624 Completing a milk round successfully with out having to double back on yourself can be like trying to solve the Königsberg bridge problem.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367605 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:50:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367605 Interesting to see old photos of Bancroft Road. When I was at Queen Mary College in the mid 90s, the building housing the students union and shop along there, you could cut through the campus to get to it. A guy in my year from Liverpool used to stand outside at lunchtime selling the Socialist Worker.

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367561 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:17:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367561 Always love these daily posts, but particularly attached to today’s as I lived where that gasworks was on Hartford Street for 12 years. It’s incredible to see it as it was. It looks both familiar and unfamiliar as so much of the street is completely changed, yet the tower block in the distance remains, the blocks of flats up the road also. Many thanks to Philip for taking the time, effort and cost. Not as trivial or cheap as just whipping out your mobile then.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367550 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:47:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367550 One wishes that today we only had these kinds of “disasters”….

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/09/minor-disasters-of-the-seventies/#comment-1367543 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:34:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185417#comment-1367543 Great “photoreportage”. Thank you, Philip Cunningham and dear G.A.

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